How to spell sound

hear itsound/saʊnd/nounLong vowels

What it means: The subjective sensation of hearing something.

In a sentence: The cat made a funny sound when it jumped.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as sounde or sownd.

Same family: sounds, sounding, unsound, soundless, resound. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Sound” comes from Old English “sund,” related to words for “healthy” and “safe,” and later took on meanings connected to hearing and speech. Linguists now use it as a technical term for any distinct unit of speech, often described with IPA symbols.

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